testing devise unauthenticated user with cucumber

2
votes

IN this example: https://github.com/RailsApps/rails3-devise-rspec-cucumber

I get an error because doing visit('/users/sign_out') (in capybara..to ensure a user is logged out) fails. The problem is there's no route for a GET to that path, since devise changed it to DELETE(and capybara doesn't support PUT and DELETE without some js workarounds)

What are your suggestions in doing the "Given I am an unauthenticated user" step? how do you guys usually do it? I am hoping there's an easy way out of this like 1-2 lines of ruby.

at the moment, i just do :

Given "i am an unauthenticated user" do
  @user == nil
end

but it sure doesn't look like it's testing anything.

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ruby-on-railsdevisecucumbercapybara

1 Answers

4
votes

Yeah - this has been a bit of a pain for lotsa folks.

The easiest way to get around it is to throw this in your /config/initializers/devise.rb file:

  config.sign_out_via = Rails.env.test? ? :get : :delete

This will use the old get method for your test environment, and delete for all others.